Hi all,

After finally getting R5C7 installed and working (like organising the guide to only show the channels I want), I now want to transfer a load of movies to the box.

Ive tried both NFS and SAMBA but neither as as fast as pure ftp but for some reason there appears to be no ftp server.

Has anybody been able to install one yet? (i've been searching through the forum for that last few hours and didn't find anything)

Cheers
Mark

I think we actually had a transfer speed "bake off" at one point which ended up with NFS winning at a very high percentage of the theoretical maximum transfer rate of a 100Mbps wired network. I think there was a bit of NFS options tuning involved, but I forget the details. A search of the forums should turn them up. Aha... http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6651

Hi,

I usually use rsync but you can apt-get install proftp and set it up as a stand-alone server. Just use the correct sources.list as posted ealier today.

Mike

Have you tried glftpd? It's pretty powerful and you can install it from source pretty easily. If you'd rather run the server on the windows side, warftpd is hands-down the best option I've seen. And yeah, FTP is just a leaner protocol than SAMBA or NFS:

I have a gs108 (not using jumbo frames) and have been measuring some xfer speed via different methods from my linux box to a win box (dlink 530T on the linux box (1000/full duplex) and marvell builtin gigalan NIC (1000/full duplex) in the winxp machine. Results:

The drive-to-drive throughput is: 44.0 megs/sec (352 Mb)
1.19 gigs in 7 files via FTP: 30.4 megs/sec (243 Mb)
1.19 gigs in 7 files via NFS: 22.6 megs/sec (181 Mb)
1.19 gigs in 7 files via SAMBA: 25.4 megs/sec (203 Mb)

Math was (1.19 gigs/x seconds) x 1024 = MB/sec and x 8 will give you Mbit per second or just "Mbit"

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Did you bump up the NFS xfer size as noted in that thread? Having Samba beat NFS goes against our prior timing experience. Oh, and what about adding SCP to the mix?

I can't remember but I'm thinking I used the default values when I was playing around with that. I didn't try SCP since reading that it wasn't on par with the other two speedwise. I have stopped looking at alternatives and mainly use SAMBA from LINUX-to-win and NFS from LINUX-to-LINUX since I'm getting lazy

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I heard a podcast from someone on the samba team that said according to their tests Samba is faster than NFS. Of course, this may be one-sided. I use samba for file transfer also.

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